Posted on 10/15/2009 7:21:48 PM PDT by kellynla
I fear that the combination of these three conditions is that this issue will never come to anything. It may be that the best we can hope for is that we can prevent this from ever happening again--assuming we ever have elections again.
Nevertheless, I admire and applaud the efforts of Orly Taitz, Alan Keyes, and all the other plaintiffs who have tried to get to the bottom of this. I pray that they will be rewarded with justice.
Replacing Ruthie with another liberal puke like her will not change the court’s complexion. Now, if Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, Alito or Kennedy is replaced with a likeminded commie as Barry Obama, THEN we the people are finally screwed.
hehe Thanks manno!
I sure hope this gets traction. This has got to get into the main stream, it is just too important to history for America to sweep under the rug.
What are the chances that 5 Supreme Court judges will go along with this?
uhhh...... where to start......
He was grandfathered in by the constitution itself, which was done so that we could have a president before 1811!
“No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President;”
That was done so that we could have a president. it is now irrelevant obviously.
You’re right...wasn’t thinking. A lib replaced with a lib is still a lib. Thanks for the clarification!
By Nancy Casey
from the March 2005 Newsletter
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His book is the engaging (as opposed to egotistical) tale of Obama’s personal, moral, and political development. His mother was an intrepid white girl from Kansas. His father, whom he hardly knew, grew up in Kenya. Obama was born in Hawaii and spent his boyhood with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia, from which he retains vivid, fond memories of running in a pack of barefoot brown boys—until he left to attend private school in Hawaii. It’s when he’s a college student in LA that the stark incongruencies of his mixed heritage and the wide geographic and cultural span of his upbringing come into focus. There is no group of folks “just like” him. He doesn’t whine, just keeps carrying us through this compelling portrait—a stint of community organizing on Chicago’s dispossessed south side and travels to Kenya to connect with his father’s family. Presently, Obama is a US Senator from Illinois. I’m not used to national politicians engaged in such lucid and complex thinking as to be found in this book
“I was never told that I was not natural born.”
So, were you ever told you were?
The founding fathers were the only ones exempt.
Umm... Hamilton was never potus.
I think someone needs a refresher course:
You were unnaturally born. LOL
Seriously, my understanding is that the definition of “natural born” which is included in the Law of Nations at the time of the constitution is both parents are citizens.
You’re a citizen, a native born citizen. But you are not a nutural born citizen if the above definition holds up as being the founders intent.
He was born in the West Indies, never ran for president, and was exempt from the natural born requirement because he was born before 1789.
Hamilton was President? Learn something new every day.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some Obama warroom is manufacturing and e-mailing this theory to the gullible, expecting this way to discredit the opposition.
This all began with the question “was Obama born in the United States”, and this is a fair question that defines his eligibility to hold the Presidency. Moving the goalposts from the original question negates any questions about the foreign birth as it presupposes Obama is American born, and generally throws away any semblance of fairness in Obama’s opposition.
This is politics. This nonsense about his parents birthplace is so clueless it has to push sensible people away from those who question Obama, and into Obama’s camp.
Hamilton might have run for President if not for that nasty duel with VP Burr.
Maybe because Alexander Hamilton never became president? He was shot dead by Aaron Burr, a former Vice President in a duel. Alexander Hamilton was Washington’s Secretary of the Treasury (as well as his former aide de camp while serving in the Continental Army). Burr was Thomas Jefferson’s VP.
But that is in fact one of the roles of the court, if Judge Carter will allow it, to determine the original intent. And that is done by examining congressional debates and the body of knowledge available at the time. Since the term is used in the "Law of Nations" available at the time of the constitution. It's likely that is the definition the founders meant to confer.
The constitution doesn't say "citizen" it says "natural born citizen". Clearly those words "Natural born", are not mere filling but must have meaning.
Burr was not a former VP, but the incumbent VP.
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